A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second EditionRevised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance. |
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... Early Music Movement, in its “earlier” stages, regarded the seventeenth century as an awkward stepchild; the music was either overripe Lasso or incipient Bach. Until fairly recently, the term “Baroque performance practice” was ...
... music; a new attitude toward emotional content in music; and the birth of new genres such as opera, oratorio, and sonata. The changes that were wrought in Italy in the early seventeenth century were unusual in many respects. First, the ...
... early eighteenthcentury music. Even among today's relatively well-informed professional performers of Baroque music there persist many disturbing misunderstandings of the essence and the details of seventeenth-century music. More ...
Contents
WIND STRING AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS | 69 |
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 291 |
THE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY STAGE | 395 |
Appendix A List of Names and Dates | 447 |
Contents | 457 |
Contents | 461 |
Bibliography | 463 |
List of Contributors | 507 |
Index | 511 |